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Carrie Figdor (Iowa): (When) Is Science Reporting Ethical? The Case for Recognizing Shared Epistemic Responsibility in Science Journalism. A Facebook-style shift in how science is shared. How anti-science forces thrive on Facebook: Welcome to the corner of the Internet that’s hell-bent on convincing you that GMOs are poisonous, vaccines cause autism, and climate change is a government-sponsored hoax — the message is traveling far and wide. The most common tricks politicians use to muddle inconvenient science. Can the White House office of science survive Trump? The office is nearly empty, and a climate-change denier may be picked to run it.

Cass Sunstein (Harvard), Lucia A. Reisch (CBS), and Julius Rauber (Zeppelin): Behavioral Insights All Over the World? Public Attitudes Toward Nudging in a Multi-Country Study. The quest to keep behavioral economics in policy after Obama’s presidency: David Johnson reviewsThe Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science by Cass Sunstein. Francis Kuriakose (EUR) and Deepa Kylasam Iyer (Oxford): The Curious Case of Choice Architect: Examining the Philosophical Inconsistencies of Libertarian Paternalism. The first chapter from The Law of Good People: Challenging States’ Ability to Regulate Human Behavior by Yuval Feldman.

From TNR, stop obsessing over Hillary Clinton — it’s pointless; and the Democrats’ existential crisis won’t resolve itself: The party will have to fix it — and here’s how they might do so. Can Democrats be hopeful? Ruy Teixeira on 7 reasons why today’s Left should be optimistic. Gerrymandering means Democrats are playing a rigged game — in Georgia and everywhere else. Forget Georgia: Virginia Democrats say victory in obscure local race signals end of Trump. Can Sherrod Brown make Democrats working class again? For more than 20 years, Sherrod Brown has been winning elections in Ohio — but with Republicans gunning for the 2018 midterms, the Democratic senator has a target on his back.